The Bad Girl Contributor(s): Llosa, Mario Vargas (Author), Grossman, Edith (Translator) |
|
![]() |
ISBN: 031242776X ISBN-13: 9780312427764 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2008 Annotation: Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager in Lima in 1950, and next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting Comrade Arlette. In Llosa's beguiling novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to be what they appear. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE |
Contributor Bio(s): Llosa, Mario Vargas: - Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.Grossman, Edith: - Edith Grossman has translated the poetry and prose of major Spanish-language authors, including Gabriel García Marquez, Alvaro Mutis, and Mayra Montero, as well as Mario Vargas Llosa. |